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ذِكْرُ إِبَاحَةِ الصَّلَاةِ عَلَى قَبْرِ الْمَدْفُونِ

ibnhibban:3083al-Faḍl b. al-Ḥubāb al-Jumaḥī > Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī > Sharīk > ʿUthmān b. Ḥakīm > Khārijah b. Zayd b. Thābit from his uncle Yazīd b. Thābit

It was narrated from Ibn ‘Umar that the Prophet ﷺ offered the funeral prayer for Najashi and said four Takbir. (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 1538)   

ابن حبّان:٣٠٨٣أَخْبَرَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ الْجُمَحِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ عَنْ خَارِجَةَ بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ عَمِّهِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ «صَلَّى عَلَى قَبْرِ فُلَانَةَ فَكَبَّرَ أَرْبَعًا»  


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ibnmajah:1531al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-ʿAnbarī And Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá > Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal > Ghundar > Shuʿbah > Ḥabīb b. al-Shahīd > Thābit > Anas

It was narrated from Anas that the Prophet ﷺ offered the funeral prayer at a grave after the burial.  

ابن ماجة:١٥٣١حَدَّثَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَظِيمِ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنَا غُنْدَرٌ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ الشَّهِيدِ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ صَلَّى عَلَى قَبْرٍ بَعْدَ مَا قُبِرَ  

ibnmajah:1538Sahl b. Abū Sahl > Makkī b. Ibrāhīm Abū al-Sakan > Mālik > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

It was narrated from Ibn ‘Umar that the Prophet ﷺ offered the funeral prayer for Najashi and said four Takbir.  

ابن ماجة:١٥٣٨حَدَّثَنَا سَهْلُ بْنُ أَبِي سَهْلٍ حَدَّثَنَا مَكِّيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَبُو السَّكَنِ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ صَلَّى عَلَى النَّجَاشِيِّ فَكَبَّرَ أَرْبَعًا  

ahmad:7147Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyibiʿan Abū Hurayrah

It was narrated from Ibn ‘Umar that the Prophet ﷺ offered the funeral prayer for Najashi and said four Takbir. (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 1538)   

أحمد:٧١٤٧حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ صَلَّى عَلَى النَّجَاشِيِّ فَكَبَّرَ أَرْبَعًا  

ahmad:7885Ibn Numayr > ʿUbaydullāh > Ibn Shihāb > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed the funeral prayer for An-Najashi and said takbeer upon him four times.  

أحمد:٧٨٨٥حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ صَلَّى عَلَى النَّجَاشِيِّ فَكَبَّرَ عَلَيْهِ أَرْبَعًا  

ذِكْرُ الْإِبَاحَةِ لِمَنْ فَاتَتْهُ الصَّلَاةُ عَلَى الْجَنَازَةِ أَنْ يُصَلِّيَ عَلَى قَبْرِ الْمَدْفُونِ

ibnhibban:3084Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sāmī > Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal > Ghundar > Shuʿbah > Ḥabīb b. al-Shahīd > Thābit > Anas

That the Prophet prayed at the grave of a woman after she had been buried. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2025)   

ابن حبّان:٣٠٨٤أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السَّامِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا غُنْدَرٌ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ الشَّهِيدِ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ «صَلَّى عَلَى قَبْرِ امْرَأَةٍ قَدْ دُفِنَتْ»  

ذِكْرُ خَبَرٍ ثَانٍ يُصَرِّحُ بِصِحَّةِ مَا ذَكَرْنَاهُ

ibnhibban:3085Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-ʿAdawī Abū Dhar Bibukhārá > Yaḥyá b. Suhayl > Abū ʿĀṣim > Sufyān And Dhakar Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf Ākhar Maʿah > Sulaymān al-Shaybānī > al-Shaʿbī > Ibn ʿAbbās

I said to Sha'bi: Who narrated it to you? He said: An authentic one, 'Abdullah b. 'Abbas. This is the word of a hasan hadith. In the narration of Ibn Numair (the words are): The Messenger of Allah ﷺ went to the grave which had been newly prepared and prayed over it, and they also prayed who were behind him and he recited four takbirs. I said to 'Amir: Who narrated it to you? He said: An authentic one who saw him, i e. Ibn 'Abbas. (Using translation from Muslim 954a)  

ابن حبّان:٣٠٨٥أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يُوسُفَ الْعَدَوِيُّ أَبُو ذَرٍ بِبُخَارَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سُهَيْلٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ وَذَكَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يُوسُفَ آخَرُ مَعَهُ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الشَّيْبَانِيِّ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ «صَلَّى عَلَى قَبْرٍ بَعْدَمَا دُفِنَ»  

ذِكْرُ وَصْفِ اسْمِ هَذَا الْمُتَوَفَّى الَّذِي صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ ﷺ بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَهُوَ فِي بَلَدِهِ

ibnhibban:3100Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyá al-Sājī Bi-al-Baṣrah > Muḥammad b. Bashhār > Abū Dāwud al-Ṭayālisī > Sufyān al-Thawrī > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar > al-Zuhrī > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib > Abū Hurayrah

It was narrated from Ibn ‘Umar that the Prophet ﷺ offered the funeral prayer for Najashi and said four Takbir. (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 1538)   

ابن حبّان:٣١٠٠أَخْبَرَنَا زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ يَحْيَى السَّاجِيُّ بِالْبَصْرَةِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ «صَلَّى عَلَى النَّجَاشِيِّ وَكَبَّرَ عَلَيْهِ أَرْبَعًا»  

bayhaqi:6935Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Ṣaghānī > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Hushaym > ʿUthmān b. Ḥakīm > Khārijah b. Zayd from his uncle Yazīd b. Thābit

[Machine] That the Prophet ﷺ prayed on a grave and performed four takbirs upon it.  

البيهقي:٦٩٣٥أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الصَّغَانِيُّ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ثنا هُشَيْمٌ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ أنبأ خَارِجَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ عَمِّهِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ صَلَّى عَلَى قَبْرٍ فَكَبَّرَ عَلَيْهِ أَرْبَعًا